This post is about Netflix Tv shows that you may enjoy watching, and that I have binge watched for you.
All of them are fantastic in their own ways, and relate back to philosophy in the sense that the characters each face moral dilemmas within the series.
1. Bojack Horseman
I was skeptical when my friend first recommended this show.
The things that Bojack Horseman deals with in his celebrity life are mundane and tragic.
When I was watching this, I was in a place of my own darkness, my own inner dilemmas and growth.
Bojack, and Mister PeanutButter helped me through it.
I may be the only person who learns things from watching TV shows, and understanding that this is a piece of writing, and the author has a message for their audience.
Truthfully, I love Netflix, and I think there is so much value in the shows that are on it.
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Bojack Horseman had his fame, now he’s just a horse with a drinking problem and an emptiness that haunts him.
From the mundane life of a celebrity, the reality of internal dilemmas are perpetuated throughout the series.
Supporting characters offer different personified philosophies, the happy go lucky Mister Peanut Butter is Bojack’s arch enemy and rival, but Bojack’s writers have plans to throw them into the same situation and make them work together despite their differences.
If you’re looking for a realistic approach to life from cartoon characters and truth about personal growth and inner development, Bojack is the show for you.
2. Dexter
I have watched the whole series of Dexter twice.
Maybe not something to be bragging about!
Either way, I love this show because it shows you the mind of a murderer and what he goes through.
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Dexter Morgan is a blood tech analyst at the Miami Dade Police Department in Miami Florida.
To anyone who knows him, he’s an average guy, with an average life.
Maybe a little socially awkward and reserved, but nothing out of the ordinary.
His sister Debra Morgan works with him, as a police officer, but there’s a catch.
Deb is not his biological sister. In fact, the story of Dexter Morgan starts with the revealing of his own biological brother.
3. Disenachantment
If you don’t know about this show, you do now!
Created by Matt Groening, a new series called Disenchantment.
Set in Medical times, in the kingdom of Dreamland, princess Tiabeanie enjoys drinking and rebelling against her father, King Zog of Dreamland’s orders.
What happens when an elf, a princess, and a demon walk into a bar?
They become a team and fight against the destruction of Dreamland as they know it.
The show combines the humour of The Simpsons with the wackiness of Futurama.
Is Elfo a full elf? He never met his mother, and who is Luci? The shadowy thing that follows Bean around… Watch the show to find out!
Part two was just released, and I’m currently in the middle of watching.
4. Bates Motel
I watched this one more than three years ago, and I have to say it shook me to my core.
Norman bates comes alive in this modern series called The Bates Motel.
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Norman Bates is a young boy, who lives with his mother, and often helps her run the family motel.
After the death of her husband, Norma Bates buys a motel so that they can begin a new life.
As a shy young boy, Norman shares an intensely close bond with his mother and as Norma pushes him, he begins to make new friends and form social relationships.
Is White Pine Bay as peaceful as Norma thought it might be?
What does the intensity of the mother-son bond do to Norman as he goes through puberty and begins forming romantic bonds that are not with his mother?
This series shows the formation of the Norman Bates we know in the 1960 movie Psycho.
5. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
This remake of our favourite Sabrina the Teenage Witch brings a whole slew of new adventures for Sabrina, Harvey and her aunts.
This series is based on the Archie Comics version of Sabrina Spellman.
Originally produced as a companion show to Riverdale, then switched to a Netflix series which was released on October 26th, 2018, just in time for Halloween!
The show also produced a Christmas special, and more episodes in April.
Continuing for another season, more adventures with Sabrina await.
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Sabrina Spellman, a teenager, with quirky aunts and a talking cat, must figure out where she belongs in the world.
Her interesting bloodline poses a dilemma, does she want to be a full witch, or a full human?
As someone who is half mortal half witch, her life is already fated to be complex and filled with questions.
Sabrina enjoys her life as a teenager by going to a regular high-school, having regular relationships with her crush, Harvey.
All of a sudden her quirky aunts, Zelda, and Hilda, tell her she must switch schools before her sixteenth birthday.
But how can Sabrina leave her friends, and Harvey behind?
What does this mean for her life?
When Sabrina decides she doesn’t want to switch schools, evil forces conspire to manipulate her decisions.
What happens next, you’ll have to watch for yourself!
Remember…
This is just my opinion and summary of each of these shows, there’s a lot more to them than I can produce in an article.
Give it a season before giving up on a show!
The characters are well written and begin to pull on your heart strings, the suspense rises and the need to know what happens next pulls you into the show.
Or maybe that’s just what happens to me! haha.
I recommend watching Sabrina just before Halloween, or while Netflix and chilling with your special someone.
If you manage to finish Sabrina before Halloween, then watch the Bates Motel, followed by Psycho.
Just because I love these shows, does not mean everyone will, so give it some time, and don’t give up before watching more than one episode!
I hope you love Netflix as much as me!
Blessings,
With light and love,
Stay true, stay weird.
~~ Kristina